Re: Can't play video samples at this site with IE, but can with Mozilla??

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From: zachd [ms] (zachd_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:36:45 -0800

What page? I see a couple pages use QuickTime, but I didn't see the WMV
pages. 

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"Morbius" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:89bb01c403f3$ad5658f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>I don't think this is actually a Media Player problem as
> much as it is an IE problem, but I had to start
> somewhere...
>
> At www.digitalhotcakes.com, there are lots of sample
> videos of the video editing files this company produces.
> If I use IE 6 as my browser and click on any of the
> samples, it opens up a smaller browser windoe with a
> Media Player screen in it, but the video never plays.  If
> I right-click on the player and ask for error details, it
> says: The source filter for this file could not be
> loaded. (Error=80040241)
>
> Now, the samples should be .WMV files, so this error
> doesn't make any sense.  As a test, I download and
> installed the Mozilla 1.6 browser, and if I use that to
> go to the same site and click on one of the sample links,
> the same smaller browser window opens, again with Media
> Player in it, and the video plays fine!  So I really
> don't think the error code is correct.
>
> My feeling is that it has something to do with the java-
> script (or applet?) coding on all the sample links that
> attempts to figure out which media it should send you.  I
> think the IE 6 isn't handling this code right, but
> Mozilla is.  But I also remember something about Java not
> being part of Windows/IE anymore.
>
> Anyway, if you have any idea how to get these files
> working right in IE 6, I'd appreciate it, as I really
> don't want two browsers on the machine.

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